Eli Power

Eli Power (2 April 1789-10 June 1821) was the overseer of Jonas Gibson's Eastville plantation in North Carolina and the first victim of Ammiras Cromey's slave uprising.

Biography
Eli Power was born on 2 April 1789 in Eastville, North Carolina, United States, and he was a veteran of the War of 1812, seeing action with a regiment of North Carolina militia in the war against the Creeks. After the war, Power was hired as a plantation overseer by Jonas Gibson, and he beat up many of the slaves, forcing them to do hard work for his master. Power was a brutal man, and on 9 June 1821 he killed a slave by beating him to death. In response, Ammiras Cromey and a few other slaves killed Power with a pickaxe on the night of 10 June, beginning the Cromey slave uprising.